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An Altmetric milestone
CIAT’s 2016 publication Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide has hit a major Altmetric milestone! It has become the highest-scoring output ever for its publisher, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. This article is ranked #1 out of 5,511 articles published by this source. In our own CGSpace repository, this article is ranked #3 out of 33,004 items…
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Restaurar la tierra y los medios de vida: un llamado para los sectores público y privado
“Si continúa la tendencia actual, tan solo la degradación de la tierra podría reducir la producción agrícola en un 12% y aumentar los precios de los alimentos en un 30% en los próximos 25 años”
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Visiones de la sostenibilidad alimentaria futura
Louis Verchot, Director, Área de Investigación en Suelos y Paisajes para la Sostenibilidad (SoiLS)
Restaurar la tierra y los…
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Baseline for assessing the impact of fairtrade certification on cocoa farmers and cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93445
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In 2014, Fairtrade International, Fairtrade Africa, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and Bioversity International initiated a collaboration for the development of a multidimensional baseline on small-scale cocoa farmers and their cooperatives in West Africa. The baseline is expected to provide a fuller…
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Se fortalece la alianza regional para recuperar tierras degradadas en América Latina
Gobiernos de América Latina ya empiezan a hablar de políticas de recuperación de tierras degradadas; hay un abanico de buenas y mejores opciones técnicas que se comparten en la región y algunos bancos y fondos de inversión privada comienzan a ver en la restauración de tierras un buen negocio.
Este es el panorama que tiene…
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Plataforma Big Data, un camino para mejorar la toma de decisiones de los pequeños agricultores
Los datos se han convertido en un activo fundamental para los centros internacionales de investigación en agricultura que, con la implementación de técnicas y herramientas para el acceso abierto y la disponibilidad de dichos datos, pueden brindar información relevante a gremios y pequeños productores agrícolas, lo que les permite…
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El rostro cambiante de los agroempresarios en Asia
“En un futuro no muy lejano, la agricultura será sinónimo de innovación, dominio de la tecnología, rentabilidad y credenciales ‘verdes’”
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Visiones de la sostenibilidad alimentaria futura
Dindo Campilan, Director Regional, Asia
El rostro cambiante de los agroempresarios en Asia
A menudo escuchamos y leemos acerca del estereotipo de un pequeño agricultor asiático:…
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Scientists make a splash with urine experiment
Not long before dawn, at a dairy farm in Colombia’s Cauca Valley, locals line up to buy fresh milk. But two people in the queue are seeking a less palatable purchase: urine. Twenty litres of fresh, steaming cow urine, specifically.
“Early morning is a good time to visit,” explains Ngoni Chirinda, a CIAT soil scientist whose teammates were among those waiting…
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Carlos Jara, a Chilean with a CIAT passport and nationality
The military dictatorship that occurred in Chile in 1973 was a very painful moment for Carlos Jara, because he had to abandon his country, his surroundings, and all that he was fond of, against his will, when he was very young.
From the age of 21, Jara resided in Colombia in order to complete his undergraduate studies in agronomy at the…
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Sink it or lose it: the carbon trade-off
New studies released by CIAT and partners show that, given the vast amount of carbon stored our soils, small management changes could have tremendous impacts, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions.
“We’re at the forefront of understanding how we can make the most of soils to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” said Rolf Sommer, principal soil scientist at…
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Fair Trade Coffee’s Aftertaste
Since its beginning in the 20th century, the entire Fair Trade movement has been organized under a single labeling organization, known as Fair Trade International. After diverging from Fair Trade International, Fair Trade USA started certifying coffee estates in order to improve the working and living conditions of the most disadvantaged farmworkers.
By Stefania Sellitti, Martha Del Río, and…
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Providing game-changing technologies to help farmers better manage their soil and water resources
Across Africa, poor soils and widespread soil degradation are limiting growth in agricultural production and threatening the viability of food systems. Yet healthy soils are vital to maintaining food security, whole-farm productivity and smallholder incomes.
Healthy soils contribute towards improved livelihoods…
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Mainstreaming agrobiodiversity in sustainable food systems: Scientific foundations for an agrobiodiversity index - Summary
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80360
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This book is the first step in the process of creating an index to help monitor the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity across different dimensions.
There is a need to measure and understand biodiversity in rapid, cost-efficient ways, to connect also with policy decisions by countries and…
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New daily climate data for crop growth simulation available
A new interface was developed to query and download future daily bias corrected data for crop growth modeling, which will help improve our understanding of the effects of climate change on agriculture.
Cross-posted from CCAFS.
Getting and handling future climate information is not always an easy task. Currently, our best tools to…
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Nuevos datos diarios de clima para simulaciones de crecimiento de cultivos
Una nueva interfaz de consulta y descarga de datos diarios futuros corregidos de sesgo para modelar el crecimiento de cultivos, ayudará a mejorar nuestro entendimiento de los efectos del cambio climático sobre la agricultura.
Publicada originalmente en CCAFS.
Conseguir y manejar información futura de clima no es siempre una…
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Terra-i team, scientific talent for a greener world
The Terra-i, which works under CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Research Area, is constantly evolving, and their main goal this year is to process a larger amount of data in less time.
“To meet this challenge we purchased more data processing devices and improved the software of our current equipment to increase…
